N.Y. Election Law § 8-300
Voting; manner of
New York · New York Election Law · Status: effective · Effective 2014-09-22
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§ 8-300. Voting; manner of. 1. The inspectors shall admit within the
voting area only two voters at a time for each ballot scanner, ballot
marking device, or privacy booth and shall ascertain whether each such
voter is entitled to vote. If he or she is found to be entitled to vote,
he or she shall be permitted to proceed to the ballot scanner, ballot
marking device, or privacy booth to vote.
2. The operating of the ballot scanner by the voter while voting or
the use of a privacy booth or ballot marking device for marking a ballot
shall be secret and obscured from all other persons except as provided
by this chapter in cases of voting by assisted voters or in cases of
children under the age of sixteen accompanying their voting parents or
guardians.
3. No voter shall remain within a privacy booth or at a ballot scanner
longer than a reasonable amount of time and if he or she shall refuse to
leave after the lapse of such time, he or she shall be removed by the
inspectors.